In the Spirit of MurderIt’s Yours for the Taking!

When top homicide Detective Claudia Hershey left Cleveland, Ohio to get away from murder and its demanding, erratic hours, she thought she’d found bliss for herself and her daughter in sleepy little Indian Run — a backwards Florida town.

But when a medium turns up dead there on Halloween night, Hershey is thrust into a nightmarish case that reaches from the secretive heart of a psychic community to the powerful corridors of the state Legislature. Unraveling the truth could end her career — maybe even her life.

Quietly DeadA Claudia Hershey Mystery – Book #2

They look like tragic accidents: An old woman drowned in her tub. An old man drowned in a pond. But when Florida Detective Claudia Hershey looks beyond the evidence, someone looks back—someone who will stop at nothing to silence her from seeing what was there all along.

Deadly AssociationsA Claudia Hershey Mystery – Book #3

When a hostage situation in a gated community turns deadly, Detective Claudia Hershey is spun into an investigation where the only certainties are deceit and betrayal. Whether she can restore tranquility to the quiet Florida town and salvage her career depends on the community’s newest residents—and who among them stays alive.

Funny MoneyThis is not part of the Claudia Hershey Mystery seriesNEW! – A Humorous Mystery

When ordinary people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances — like literally stumbling over an old box containing more than $200,000 in an abandoned field — you can be sure chaos will follow.

But that much money can be seductive, and the choices you make may not be those that would even occur to you under other circumstances.

See how 29-year-old Regina deals with her unexpected find in this laugh-out-loud humorous mystery. Will a bumbling thief, enterprising priest, obnoxious private eye and other quirky characters help — or hurt? Go for the belly laugh to find out in this full-length novel set in the 1980s, when the rules of today simply didn’t exist then.

About Laura

The truth? I’m a lucky writer. I get to do what I do in one of the most dynamic, controversial and diverse states in America. No, I didn’t grow up here. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Bolted two days out of high school into the Air Force, where for four years I spent most of my time in Germany and England. Got in a little trouble here and there, but nothing serious. And once? The Air Force kind of lost me. I had the luxury of ambling happily along without consequence for about a month before anyone realized records for me had been screwed up.

All of that makes good fodder for writing mysteries, or nearly anything, for that matter. But my story begins a lot sooner, way back in elementary school when I penned “The Day the Gravity Left the Earth.” It . . . well, it pretty much sucked. On the other hand, my teacher hung onto that story in my childish scrawl and some 25 years later presented it to me. I thought, “How embarrassing.” Then I thought, well, maybe not. There was promise in the creativity.